Re: [Visionaries] WebScheme

[James Michael DuPont]

--- Peter Minten <address@hidden> wrote:
> James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > 
> > --- Peter Minten <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > The objects stdin, stdout and stderr are pipes.
> > 
> > So strings are ports. Can I create a port and attach it to any
> > variable?
> 
> You can make any variable act like a port by providing a few methods
> and mixing
> in the port-mixin module. Remember however that a port is something
> that you can
> read characters from or write characters to.

Well, in c, you can read and write characters to anything in memory,
the idea is that with serialization, you can treat any object as a
port.

> 
> > Is there a standard serialization layer for this lang?
> 
> Not yet. Serialization and Threading are still to be done. I don't
> know if
> serialization is possible anyway. A WebScheme program can be seen as
> a directed
> graph, the vertices (points) being storage locations (say variables).
> To
> serialize an object you need to send all data along that is reachable
> using a
> directed path from the object vertex. That's an awful lot of data.

Ok, well i think that we should be able to write such serialization.
This is related to the TUNE term of migration 

http://cliki.tunes.org/Migration

>  
> > Also, will this language be attached to the dotgnu runtime?
>  
> What DotGNU runtime? It will be hookable into DGEE the VM way. It
> won't be
> attached to ilrun since it doesn't compile to IL.

OK, i meant, will I be able to call c# methods or ilrun things...


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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